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The Swedish state electricity grid and Energy Minister Anders Ygeman (S) have secretly allocated 1 billion national electricity contingency money to a private company to solve electricity problems in Stockholm, writes Dagens Nyheter. The moderates now want Anders Ygeman to be called up to the Riksdag.
Infrastructure Minister Anders Ygeman (S). Stock Photography
It’s about the lack of electricity in Stockholm. While waiting for Svenska kraftnät to expand the mainnet, Anders Ygeman presented a solution in October 2019.
An old outdated oil cogeneration plant was to be renovated in Värtan, Stockholm. It costs two billion crowns.
The question was who would pay. According to information at a press conference at the time, power producer Stockholm Exergi would invest SEK 1.6-2.1 billion in the power plant, something TT reported at the time.
But according to DN, this is not true. Svenska kraftnät and the Ministry of Infrastructure agreed instead that half of the money, 1 billion SEK, would be taken from national electricity contingency funds. Money to protect socially important functions if the power grid is shut down in the event of a crisis or war, not in the event of a normal power shortage.
If the contingency money is to be paid, there must be a basis in the form of socioeconomic analysis, according to Mats Nilsson, an associate professor of economics and an expert on the electricity market.
– If not, the authority has made a mistake. That this is missing is really creepy, he tells DN.
The intention was that the money would go to the private company Stockholm Exergi, which according to the DN document has been informed that the facilities will not comply with the legal requirements for connection to the electricity grid.
According to DN, two officers with experience in emergency preparedness were ordered to lower the requirements. When they refused, they were disconnected from the case by a senior manager, who stepped in and lowered the requirements.
Energy Minister Anders Ygeman (S) has declined to comment on the newspaper’s information. The moderates react to them and now want Ygeman to be called to the Riksdag’s business committee.
“The whole history of electricity prices and crisis packages in Stockholm and Skåne has been fraught with strangeness. Is it a cabinet? Have the laws been followed? Has tax money been wasted? “writes the party’s corporate policy spokesman, Lars Hjälmered (M) on Twitter.
Fixed: a previous version declared the wrong ministry.
